Jay Doubleyou: comparing: countries

What are the differences between your country and other countries? - those that you know, have visited, would like to go to...

There are lots of different ways to make comparisons:

Guide to Country Comparisons - The World Factbook

There are lots of statistics to look at to make comparisons:

The Diversity of Countries and Economies across the World | OpenStax Macroeconomics 2e

How different nationalities see the world differently - And why it matters | Listening Partnership | Oxford

How does does your country compare?

This study was carried out by UNESCO in 2007:

An overview of child well-being in rich countries

A comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations

The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.

Click on this link to see a table which compares these different criteria - and the UK and US come out significantly badly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/13_02_07_nn_unicef.pdf

www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf

There are plenty of other statistics about how well we look after our children.

For example, how many resources they have at school, with Scandinavian and German/Austrian/Swiss kids having more than enough - see page 36 of this more recent report from the OECD:

www.oecd.org/els/family/43570328.pdf

Jay Doubleyou: explaining how your country's education system works

And then there is the measurement of 'happiness':